Daily Podcast: Will Luxury Car Sales Suck?
Rising U.S. gas prices and the American mortgage meltdown has hit sales of new vehicles hard. In terms of the product mix, a lot of ink has been expended on…
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Daily Podcast Pt. 2: Jason Vines Edition
TTAC's Robert Farago and Compuware's Jason Vines discuss the day's car news
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Daily Podcast: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
A couple of years ago, I expected the United Auto Workers (UAW) to sink The Big Three (as they were known at the time). Scanning the situation at bankrupt pa…
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Daily Podcast: It Must Be Said
TTAC's Robert Farago and Justin Berkowitz discuss the day's automotive news
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Meizhu Lui: Racism and the "Internal Combustion Divide"
Meizhu Lui argues that American blacks need a better mass transportation system-- rather than cars.
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TTAC Did Detroit
TTAC's Robert Farago and Sajeev Mehta discuss The 2008 Detroit Auto Show.
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KBB: Car Dealers' Websites Need CGC… Good Luck With That
Kelley Blue Book rep advises car dealer to allow user generated content. As if.
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Daily Podcast: Spineless Bastards
Underneath the latest GM Death Watch, a kvetch of commentators are hashing-out an old argument: why doesn't Ford bring its Euro-Focus to America? As KatiePuc…
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Daily Podcast: TTAC Party in West Palm Beach?
First Samir Syed reminded me that the New York Auto Show is a crashing– I mean, static bore. Then I looked out my garret window and saw the dirty snow…
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Saturn Rethinks "Rethink American"
Saturn drops "American" from their "Rethink American" advertising strapline.
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Daily Podcast: TTAC Party at New York Auto Show?
It is with great trepidation that I raise this possibility. I remember my first foray into bridging the gap between Internet postings and FTF. I was writing…
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Daily Podcast: Detroit Auto Show Grants TTAC Two Press Passes
Hunter Thompson and Ernest Hemingway are my greatest literary influences. The former taught me that writing is important. The latter taught me to use as few…
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Daily Podcast: Save Enough Money And…
you'll go broke. This was my father's admonition to my mother whenever she returned from the sales, triumphantly proclaiming she'd saved vast quantities of c…
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NIKE Encourages Kids to Jump Over Cars
I know it sounds like I'm being sensationalistic (perish the thought) and making this up (never!), but there's no other way to interpret NIKE's decision to f…
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Daily Podcast: The Value of Value
A friend of my father's taught me there are only three markets: price, value and quality. Price-driven consumers want the lowest possible purchase price, per…
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